for barack obama it is hard politics. the politics are hard for him, because he has already signaled he is willing to talk about deficit reduction. a lot of them are disturbed. he has gotten comfortable willing to make deficit reduction a priority, given the pain people are going through right now. paul krugman writes about this, stop embracing the notion of deficit reduction. now there are others who make this point all the time. you have got people pushing him to talk about deficit reduction. if you look at sunday morning talk shows, and i am not talking about the right. i am talking about democrats and folks on the left who are saying he has to agree to some entitlement cut spending. turn on the tv, and folks on the left are saying when the politics are concerned, he has to agree to entitlement cuts. tell me why they are not hard. >> you are right. >> back it up and understand there are millionaires who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create this type of culture that says we are going to have to cut socia